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Banking Update: Small Banks See Big Deposit Withdrawals [1/3]

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  • Released late Friday Mar 24, the Fed’s weekly banking assets & liabilities data showed a slight acceleration in deposit withdrawals for the first week capturing fallout from regional banking woes (ending Wed 15 Mar).
  • Net outflows increased to $53B from $46B from the week prior, although that was equivalent to a more pronounced acceleration in seasonally adjusted terms to $98B from $63B, the largest weekly drop since Apr’22 and before that Oct’08.

  • The overall decline in commercial bank deposits masked opposing forces through the week.
  • Small domestic banks saw their largest deposit flight since at least 2000 in both NSA ($108B) and SA ($120B) terms, almost or more than twice the previous largest single week outflow.
  • This was offset by haven seeking at larger banks, which saw the largest inflows in over a year at $120B (although notably scaled down to $67B SA) in a break from consistent withdrawals having peaked in Mar’22 at the start of the Fed hiking cycle.
  • That haven seeking appeared to affect foreign-related institutions as well, also seeing large outflows.

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